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mostly staying clear of what threatens to become a political firestorm over the
slow launch of production at the LG Chem battery plant, and some are urging
patience.
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OLIVE TOWNSHIP — Red and
pink cranberries bobbed to the surface of a flooded bog, leaving a straggling
trail behind a crew of harvest workers.

Farmer Wayne Kiel watched
the crew work.

“It’s looking like we’re
going to have a good crop,” said Kiel of Blueberry Heritage Farms. “Why this
year, I have no idea, because the blueberry crop was off.”

For Kiel, like many other
farmers who cultivate cranberries, the crunchy, sour red berries represent a
relatively small percentage of his crop each year — most of his land is
dedicated to blueberries. As a part of Michigan’s total agricultural output,
too, cranberries make up a small fraction.